Netanyahu Apologizes
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If it is true that Prime Minister Netanyahu apologized to Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen for falling for Fidel Castro’s faux gesture toward Israel — so it was reported by Ben Smith of Politico and followed up on by Jeffrey Goldberg of the Atlantic — then congratulations are in order to the both the Israeli leader and the congresswoman and, for that matter, the two reporters.
Earlier this year Mr. Castro had claimed to Mr. Goldberg that, despite his regime having thrown in with Israel’s enemies all these years, he believes Israel has a right to exist as a Jewish state. “Yes,” Mr. Goldberg quoted him as saying, “without a doubt.” Mr. Goldberg also quoted the dying dictator as rebuking the Iranian regime for its Holocaust denial and expressing admiration for Prime Minister Netanyahu’s father, Ben-Zion Netanyahu, the premier historian of the Spanish inquisition.
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